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Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words.
Install Hook Mining
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills hook-mining --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hook-mining .claude/skills/hook-mining && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "hook-mining" agent skill from https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-mining into .claude/skills/hook-mining/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hook-mining", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-miningType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills hook-mining --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hook-mining .agents/skills/hook-mining && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "hook-mining" agent skill from https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-mining into .agents/skills/hook-mining/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hook-mining", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills hook-mining --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hook-mining .cursor/skills/hook-mining && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "hook-mining" agent skill from https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-mining into .cursor/skills/hook-mining/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hook-mining", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git --path skills/hook-mining--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills hook-mining --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hook-mining .gemini/skills/hook-mining && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hook-mining" agent skill from https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-mining into .gemini/skills/hook-mining/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hook-mining", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills hook-miningInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hook-mining .github/skills/hook-mining && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hook-mining" agent skill from https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-mining into .github/skills/hook-mining/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hook-mining", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills hook-mining --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hook-mining .opencode/skills/hook-mining && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hook-mining" agent skill from https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills/tree/main/skills/hook-mining into .opencode/skills/hook-mining/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hook-mining", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
hook-mining- GitHub stars
- 112
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 516 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 51
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words.
- Works in 3 steps: Get real hooks in → Mine it → Remix — the part that matters
- The user has hook performance data (a Sandcastles / social-analytics export
- SKILL.md covers 1. Get real hooks in, 2. Mine it, 3. Remix — the part that matters and Hard rules, plus 2 more sections
- Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python
What it does
Hook Mining is an agent skill from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills. Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words. Use when the user has hook performance data (a Sandcastles / social-analytics export, scraped competitor hooks, their own analytics) and says "mine hooks", "remix hooks", "hook variations", "make hooks from this CSV", or "give me hook options from what's working". NOT for inventing hooks from nothing — that's viral-hook-writer.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `mine_hooks.py`).
It sits in Documents & Office, covering CSV and tabular files and Storytelling. The repository describes itself as: Free, copy-paste Claude skills that run your content growth factory — turn ideas + your NotebookLM memory into scroll-stopping Instagram reels. By Ootto. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user has hook performance data (a Sandcastles / social-analytics export
- Scraped competitor hooks
- Their own analytics) and says mine hooks
- Hook variations
Example prompts
- “mine hooks”
- “remix hooks”
- “hook variations”
- “/hook-mining”
Requirements
- Python 3
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 07b5294. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships script files (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Hook Mining loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 131 tokens; SKILL.md has 516 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills at commit 07b5294, republished under its MIT licence (© Ootto-AI). 516 words, ~1,183 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/hook-mining/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- hook-mining
- description
- Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words. Use when the user has hook performance data (a Sandcastles / social-analytics export, scraped competitor hooks, their own analytics) and says "mine hooks", "remix hooks", "hook variations", "make hooks from this CSV", or "give me hook options from what's working". NOT for inventing hooks from nothing — that's viral-hook-writer.
- user-invokable
- true
- argument-hint
- [path to your hooks CSV]
- license
- MIT
- metadata.author
- Ootto
- metadata.version
- 1.0.0
Hook mining
Most AI hook writing is slop for one of two reasons: it copy-pastes a hook that worked for someone else, or it "rewrites" it until the English is flat and the psychology is gone.
This does neither. It keeps the data for what worked — the structure, the psychological mechanism, the rhythm — and swaps only the power words. Proven skeleton stays, skin changes.
1. Get real hooks in
You cannot mine what you do not have. The input is a CSV of hooks that actually performed:
- a Sandcastles (sandcastles.ai) export — it analyses the top videos in your niche and ranks the best hooks; export that tab to CSV
- any social-analytics export with a hook/title/caption column and a views/likes/score column
- competitor hooks pulled with the agent-reach skill, or breakdowns from reel-analyzer
Column names are never predictable, so don't hand-parse.
2. Mine it
python skills/hook-mining/mine_hooks.py hooks.csv [--top 40]Auto-detects the hook column and the performance column, ranks, buckets by pattern, and flags the
power words already present. Writes hooks.mined.json. Run --selftest to verify the parsing.
Patterns it sorts into: result-proof · time-bound · contrarian · secret-gap · listicle ·
how-to · warning-fear · newsjack · comparison · question · curiosity-tease ·
plain-statement.
3. Remix — the part that matters
For each hook worth reusing, produce 3–5 alternatives under one rule:
Keep the psychology. Swap the power words.
Hold fixed: the pattern, the clause order, the specificity (a number stays a number), the rhythm and syllable shape, the tension and where it resolves, the point of view.
Swap only: the charged words — the verb, the intensifier, the noun carrying the emotion.
power_word_frequency in the mined JSON tells you which ones are earning their keep in your niche.
Pull replacements from there, not from a thesaurus.
proven: "You're using Claude wrong" [contrarian · you're + wrong]
✅ "You're prompting Claude backwards" swapped the verb + the charge word
✅ "You're building agents the slow way" same skeleton, same tension
❌ "Many people use Claude incorrectly" psychology gone, flat English → slop
❌ "You're using Claude wrong" verbatim copy → plagiarism, the platform buries itThen hand the winners to viral-hook-writer to rank, or straight into reel-scripter.
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Hard rules
- Never ship a mined hook verbatim. It is someone else's line. Instagram's originality systems bury copies, and it's plagiarism. Model the technique, write your own words.
- Never remix the structure. Change the clause order or drop the number and you have thrown away the only thing the data proved.
- A number in the source stays a number in the remix — and it must be YOURS and real. Swapping in a stat you cannot defend is the fastest way to lose an audience.
- Rank before you mine. Remixing a hook that did not perform just launders a bad idea.
- Small buckets are signal. A pattern with two entries that both went viral beats one with forty mediocre ones. Weight by performance, not by count.
Failure modes
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Variants read flat / corporate | rewrote the sentence instead of swapping words | restore the original skeleton, change only the charged words |
| All variants sound identical | swapped one word in one slot | vary the slot — verb, intensifier, or emotional noun |
| Variants lost the tension | resolved the curiosity gap inside the hook | the gap stays open; the payoff belongs after the hook |
| Nothing outperforms | mining unranked or off-niche data | re-export ranked, filter to the actual niche |
Where it sits
agent-reach / reel-analyzer find what's working → hook-mining turns that data into your own
hooks → viral-hook-writer ranks → reel-scripter writes the script → reel-builder builds it.
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Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/hook-mining of Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.
- SKILL.md
- mine_hooks.py
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 07b5294
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Questions about Hook Mining
What does Hook Mining do?
Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words. Hook Mining is an agent skill from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills. Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words.
When should I use Hook Mining?
Hook Mining fits situations like: the user has hook performance data (a Sandcastles / social-analytics export; scraped competitor hooks; their own analytics) and says mine hooks; hook variations.
How do I install Hook Mining in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/hook-mining in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills) into .claude/skills/hook-mining in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Hook Mining in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/hook-mining in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills) into .agents/skills/hook-mining in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Hook Mining in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill hook-mining -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hook-mining, .gemini/skills/hook-mining, .github/skills/hook-mining and .opencode/skills/hook-mining in your project.
What does Hook Mining need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Hook Mining needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Hook Mining access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Hook Mining safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Hook Mining use?
Hook Mining is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Hook Mining use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Hook Mining?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hook Mining: Presentation (RightNow-AI/openfang, 18k stars), Vdjdb Format (antigenomics/vdjdb-db, 157 stars), Graphic Case Study (Varnan-Tech/opendirectory, 674 stars) and Champion Tracker (majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, 666 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Hook Mining?
Ootto-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills, which has 112 GitHub stars. The repository holds 51 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 23, 2026.
Source: Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.